@alexstrvinsky We're working on the database part! We don't want to sell art, but we want a central repository artists can access their files from that plays nicely with online sales platforms. Imagine if you can create or update their entire portfolio on Ziibra, Vango, Saatchi, or Society6 with the click of a button! I bet a lot more artists would participate and keep their portfolios up to date. That's the world we imagine, and the one we're working to build.

@alexstrvinsky back in college I helped artists find gallery representation, sell prints, get their artwork online, etc. But I noticed that virtually none of the artists I worked with had the art files that they needed, so I learned art digitization and started serving artists in my community. I realized this was a systemic problem that kept artists stuck, so I decided to build a solution.

Hi fellow Product Hunters! I'm one of the founders of ArtSquare. Happy to answer any questions :)
We made ArtSquare because it needs to exist. The online art world is exploding (doubling by 2018) but artists are stranded because they don't have the image files that they need!
Art digitization is expensive (sometimes $150/artwork), image files are a nightmare to organize (store, resize/reformat), and artists are spending hours uploading their artwork to dozens of platforms-- all without the promise of any results. We're solving these problems by connecting artists to vetted photographers, automatically updating their portfolio with the new files and making those files easily downloadable in the sizes and formats they need.
There's a lot of work to be done in the space, but it's really exciting to work on :)

@whoisadi Not currently. What's most valuable to us right now is making sure artists have the best way to securely store their art files that they already have or that have been digitized by our network-- this is something that's been a massively overlooked in our industry so it's important that we get this right. Eventually we may build something that makes these files publicly viewable, but the public portfolio space is already really crowded and not something we are explicitly interested in.